Rodney Graham
Rodney Graham Cv
Rodney Graham is recognized for a rigorously intellectual art, which ranges from photography, film, video and music to sculpture, painting and books. Graham's work examines social and philosophical systems of thought, in particular those derived from the transition of the Enlightenment into Modernism. Underlying each work is an historical context, through which a complex narrative incorporates literary and philosophic references and visual puns.The work is essentially circular in structure and moves in seamless and infinite loops, such as the film trilogy Vexation Island (1997), How I Became a Ramblin' Man (1999), and City Self/Country Self (2001), where Graham impersonates fictional characters - respectively a castaway, a cowboy and a city dandy as well as its opposite, a country man – who are engaged in the endless repetition of fruitless actions and gestures, caught in the impossibility of reaching any meaningful conclusion. Borrowing from existing models, Graham constructs his own system, whose operating logic, often based in disorientation, the humorous and the absurd, deflects rather than reveals the key to their interpretation.
Rodney Graham lives and works in Vancouver.
Download CV as PDF (201 K)
Rodney Graham Exhibitions
Rodney Graham Public Exhibitions
101 Collection: Route 1 - R for ReplicantCCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
19 January - 10 April
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Rodney Graham
Through the Forest, MACBA, Barcelona
29 January 2010 - 18 May
MACBA
Rodney Graham
Museu de Picasso, Barcelona
29 January 2010 - 18 May
Museu de Picasso
DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d'essayer de me comprendre!
Villa Arson, Nice
5 February - 30 May
Villa Arson
Rodney Graham
Through the Forest, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
13 June - 26 September
Museum für Gegenwartskunst
Rodney Graham Images
Dance!!!!! 2008 Backlit colour transparency diptych 279.4 H x 368.2 W x 17.8 D cm
Rotary Psycho-Opticon, 2008 AV & Multimedia 120 x 144 inches
Paradoxical Western Scene, 2006 Painted aluminium lightbox with transmounted chromogenic transparency 147.3 x 121.9 x 17.8 cm
Allegory of Folly: Study for an Equestrian Monument in the Form of a Wind Vane, 2005 C-Prints mounted on lightboxes
Screen Door, 2005 Solid silver 203 x 82 x 12 cm
Tourqued Chandelier Release, 2004 35mm silent colour film (5min), purpose built projector screen Screen 305 x 183 cm
Continuous Transformation of the Form of a Child's Sledge into that of Another, 2000 Child's sledge, slide projector, 80 slides Dimensions variable
Rodney Graham Contact
Sales Enquiries: Elly Ketsea elly@lissongallery.com +44 (0)20 7535 3455Artist Liaison: Silvia Sgualdini silvia@lissongallery.com +44 (0)20 7535 7354